ROBERTS FAMILY INFO

ROBERTS FAMILY INFO

Submitted by Kim Roberts Foster at [email protected]

Martha A. Roberts
 
Obit:  Roberts, Martha A Thursday 16 Nov. 1944 - age 66, died at her home, 1706 E 9th Wed. Native of Indiana and a Texarkana resident 50 years. Survivors include her husband, T. H. Roberts; five sons, O. C. Medley, Claude Medley, B. L. Medley, Pvt. Clyde Roberts and W. C. Roberts; four daus. Mrs. Wayne Rayburn, Mrs. W. H. Mosley, Mrs. Joe Vann and Mrs. Ethel Chambless; one sister, Mrs. W. L. Stanford. Funeral at Shiloh Church, burial in Cedar Grove Cem.
 
Full name: Martha Artemese Chandler (middle name pronounced "Art-uh-me-see")
Nickname: Mack
Parents: Malissa Witherspoon and Richard W Chandler, Mack was their 5th of 6 children
Siblings: 1. Richard Witherspoon Chandler born December 11, 1867
                2. Hattie J Chandler (married Alec Ernest Stinson) born 1870
                3. Cornelia Simpson Chandler (married Robert Newton Shelton) born 8/4/1871
                4. Omego Barnes Chandler born 1875
                6. Mary William Chandler (married William Linton Stanford) born 10/23/1882
               
First Husband: Silas Bartholomew Medley, married January 25, 1894 in Genoa, AR
    marriage recorded in Book G pg 386 Miller County marriage records, widowed 1906 when     "Si" died in a sawmill accident.
Second Husband: Thomas Hampton "Hamp" Roberts, married January 24, 1910 in Genoa
 
Children (all deceased):
                   Son, Otho C Medley born 6/17/1895
                    son, Bert Lee Medley born 10/27/1897
                    dau, Lether Marie Medley born 10/1899 died April 1901
                    dau, Maud Ethel Medley born 5/29/1901
                    son, Claud E. Medley born 9/18/1903
 
                    Dau, Edna Lucille Roberts born 7/18/1912
                    dau, Edra Irene Roberts born 11/23/1921
 
She also raised Hamp's 3 children as her own:
                son, William Clarence Roberts born 9/29/1903
                dau Ethel M. Roberts born 5/3/1905
                son Clyde born 2/13/1907
 

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